Oscar Wilde Quote: Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of…

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.